column Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/column/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:07:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg column Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/column/ 32 32 170042892 Living creatively in a hybrid church https://anglicanjournal.com/living-creatively-in-a-hybrid-church/ https://anglicanjournal.com/living-creatively-in-a-hybrid-church/#respond Wed, 09 Jun 2021 12:49:24 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167835 I was moved and challenged after reading Canon Neil Elliot’s article in the Anglican Journal, ‘Our response …gives me much hope,’ and would like to respond.* After reviewing some of his assessment of our situation in the emerging post-COVID-19 church, I would like to ponder the meaning of a term he uses—“hybrid”—review some historical precedents […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/living-creatively-in-a-hybrid-church/feed/ 0 167835 Aotearoa Histories https://anglicanjournal.com/aotearoa-histories/ https://anglicanjournal.com/aotearoa-histories/#respond Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:01:17 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167732 Decolonizing and reindigenizing church and society in New Zealand Acting editor’s note: June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. Recognizing that colonization has affected not just this land and its Indigenous peoples but many across the world, the Anglican Journal invited Māori priest and historian Hirini Kaa to share an update and some reflections […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/aotearoa-histories/feed/ 0 167732 Ordained for the whole church https://anglicanjournal.com/ordained-for-the-whole-church/ https://anglicanjournal.com/ordained-for-the-whole-church/#comments Tue, 04 May 2021 04:01:36 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167634 If one does justice to the poor and destitute, then it is good; is this not knowing me?—the Word of the Lord. (Jeremiah 22:16) Since we have lost nine of our elder clergy in the past year, most to COVID-19, we are in a crisis. Before the pandemic, on a good day, we were stretched […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/ordained-for-the-whole-church/feed/ 9 167634 On the marriage canon https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-marriage-canon/ https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-marriage-canon/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:00:24 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=159578 When non-Indigenous people hear that there is a widespread ambivalence and reluctance among Indigenous Anglicans to change the marriage canon to allow same-sex marriage, they assume that this is a conservative remnant of the work of the missionaries. Non-Indigenous peoples often hold a hidden and unexamined assumption that Indigenous people are a primitive version of […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-marriage-canon/feed/ 11 159578 ‘The eyes of our faith’ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-eyes-of-our-faith/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-eyes-of-our-faith/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:00:00 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158972 O God, Your Son made himself known to his disciples In the breaking of bread. Open the eyes of our faith, That we may see him in his redeeming work, Who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever. —Book of Alternative Services, p. 338 In a number […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-eyes-of-our-faith/feed/ 1 158972 Leadership and the rest of us https://anglicanjournal.com/leadership-and-the-rest-of-us/ https://anglicanjournal.com/leadership-and-the-rest-of-us/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:00:18 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158786 In the past few years, we have chosen many new bishops. Soon, we will choose a new primate. With these major changes, we have entered a time of critical reflection and discernment. It is a time to reflect upon the character of Christian leadership, but we must not evaluate our leaders apart from us. It […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/leadership-and-the-rest-of-us/feed/ 2 158786 Making ministry Indigenous https://anglicanjournal.com/making-ministry-indigenous/ https://anglicanjournal.com/making-ministry-indigenous/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:00:48 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158676 Since the missionaries arrived, there has been a disciplined and dedicated attempt to make Indigenous churches look, act and feel like their non-Indigenous counterparts. We can say, once and for all, it was a failure. It isn’t that Indigenous congregations don’t have the means or capacity to mimic their counterparts. From the beginning and for […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/making-ministry-indigenous/feed/ 6 158676 The view from the new pew https://anglicanjournal.com/the-view-from-the-new-pew/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-view-from-the-new-pew/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:00:13 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158660 Apparently, the vibrations from the street outside have been less than good for my old church. Thanks to heavier and heavier trucks travelling faster and harder on a road better suited to horse-and-buggy than tractor-and-trailer, combined with the unrelenting attractional power of gravity—seeking oneness between ceiling and floor—we now have a giant plaster bubble that […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-view-from-the-new-pew/feed/ 1 158660 Add a ‘Heartbeat’ to your annual vestry meeting https://anglicanjournal.com/add-a-heartbeat-to-your-annual-vestry-meeting/ https://anglicanjournal.com/add-a-heartbeat-to-your-annual-vestry-meeting/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2019 13:00:24 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158655 While the thought of the parish annual meeting, or vestry as it is known in some dioceses, does not thrill everyone’s heart, I confess to being one of those people for whom it actually did! Even though the compiling of the annual report was a lot of work, I always felt it was worth the […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/add-a-heartbeat-to-your-annual-vestry-meeting/feed/ 1 158655 Celebrating community in Canada’s North https://anglicanjournal.com/celebrating-community-in-canadas-north/ https://anglicanjournal.com/celebrating-community-in-canadas-north/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:00:24 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158508 Almost 50 years ago, as a Lutheran synod staff person, I worked with representatives of Anglican, Presbyterian and United churches to create a viable model for church-planting across northern Canada. What started as the Leaf Rapids Ecumenical Parish in Manitoba has now been adapted to other isolated mining, mill-town and petroleum industry-support locations across the […]

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